Health Care Aide

About the Employer
  • Meadow Valley Manor Inc.
  • 1670 Hickey Road, Saint John, NB E2J3S5

  • admin@meadowvalleymanor.ca

  • Verified
Hourly Wage
$$22.00

Job Description

The Employee will be expected to perform the following job duties: • Take patient’s blood pressure, temperature, and pulse; report or record fluid intake and output; observe or monitor patient’s status and document patient care on charts; collects specimens such as urine, feces or sputum. • Administer, in emergency situations, first aid to injured or ill individuals within the scope of competencies. • Transport patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery. • Carry messages, reports, requisitions, and specimens between departments. • Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms. • Maintain inventory of supplies. • May transport patients between care facilities. • Answer call signals, supply and empty bed pans, bathe, dress and groom patients, serve meal trays, feed or assist in feeding of patients and assist patients with menu selection; weigh, lift, turn, and position patients, shave patients prior to operations, supervise patients exercise routines, set up and provide leisure activities for patients, accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort. • Cook and prepare meals for the residents. • Administering medications.